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Pinned 🇦🇹 Austria partly open Verified 2026-09-01
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🇨🇿 Czechia
partly open
Verified 2026-09-01
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| Licence type | MiCA CASP Authorisation granted by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) | MiCA CASP authorisation under EU Regulation 2023/1114, with the Czech National Bank (CNB) designated as the domestic competent authority. The CNB accepts applications in English, which practitioners cite as a distinguishing feature versus other Member States. |
| Regulator | Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA) Österreich | Česká národní banka (Czech National Bank, CNB), sole competent authority for both authorisation and ongoing supervision of CASPs in Czechia. |
| Capital requirement | Austria capital requirement is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia capital requirement is included in the £349 pass. |
| Timeline to authorisation | Austria timeline to authorisation is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia timeline to authorisation is included in the £349 pass. |
| Local substance | Austria local substance is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia local substance is included in the £349 pass. |
| Application cost | Austria application cost is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia application cost is included in the £349 pass. |
| Ongoing cost | Austria ongoing cost is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia ongoing cost is included in the £349 pass. |
| Passporting | Austria passporting is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia passporting is included in the £349 pass. |
| MiCA CASPs approved | Austria mica casps approved is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia mica casps approved is included in the £349 pass. |
| Key restrictions | Austria key restrictions is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia key restrictions is included in the £349 pass. |
| Recent changes | Austria set 30 June 2026 as the end of its transitional regime (shorter runway than the EU default 1 July 2026 deadline), creating pressure for existing FM-GwG registered VASPs to secure full CASP authorisation; Bybit reported as licensed in Austria per exchange-tracking source OSL EU GmbH was authorised on 7 July 2026 (per ESMA's interim register), the eleventh Austrian CASP. | Authorisation count growth confirmed: 0 authorised CASPs as of February 2026, moving to the CNB's first 6 authorisations issued 11 February 2026, then to 7 authorised CASPs by May 2026 (per Helms Advisory tracker). Czechia is described by multiple sources as the fastest-moving MiCA CASP jurisdiction in the EU in 2026, processing English-language applications from a pool of 248 filings. |
| Difficulty rating | Austria difficulty rating is included in the £349 pass. | Czechia difficulty rating is included in the £349 pass. |
Informational only, not legal advice. A delta compares the sortable figure only (capital, timeline, cost, difficulty, passporting, approvals); it is not a judgement on overall suitability. Verify with qualified counsel before acting.
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